Web Design & SEO for Delaware City Businesses
The Delaware City Refinery covers more than 5,000 acres and employs around 570 people. The city it is named after has 1,885 residents.
Websites from $999, live in about a week.
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The widest gap in the state between a town and its industry
Delaware City holds 1,885 people at the eastern mouth of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Beside it sits one of the largest industrial facilities in North America: the Delaware City Refinery, over 5,000 acres, about 570 employees, 180,000 barrels a day nameplate capacity and a Nelson complexity rating of 13.6, running a heavy high-sulfur crude slate. Commissioned in 1956, it was shut down by Valero in 2009, bought by PBF Energy for $220 million in 2010 and restarted in October 2011.
Almost no municipality carries a ratio like that between its residents and its industry, and it shapes who buys what. Some firms in town sell to the plant and to the contractors who service it. Others sell to people who came for Fort Delaware, rode the Forts Ferry Crossing out to Pea Patch Island, and want lunch when they get back. Those are separate jobs with separate vocabularies.
A refinery, a fort and a ferry
The second engine is Fort DuPont, a 400-acre former Army post the city annexed after a May 2016 referendum carried 287 to 150. Its redevelopment corporation published hard figures for 2025: 54 new homes built, 10 historic residences restored, 16 rental homes occupied, 13 structures stabilized to Interior Department standards, five brownfield areas remediated, and $34 million in fresh assessed value added to the county and city tax rolls.
Growth shaped like that arrives one household at a time, and each arrival needs a contractor, a vet and somewhere to eat. Add five National Register listings, a state park and a working passenger ferry, and a small operator has a catchment far wider than the population suggests — as long as the website is clear about what is walkable, what runs seasonally and what has to be booked ahead.
We build for Delaware City businesses like
- Contract maintenance and industrial safety firms serving the refinery
- Environmental, remediation and dredging consultancies
- Marina, boatyard and charter operators on the canal
- Restaurants and lodging tied to Fort Delaware visitors
- Residential trades building out at Fort DuPont
- Real estate and property services in the historic district
Everything your business needs online, under one roof
One team, one invoice, one phone number. Start with a website, add whatever you need later — nothing here is a separate agency. Already have a site? Ask for a free SEO audit and we will tell you where it stands.
Web Design
Custom, mobile-first sites built to be found and to load fast.
WordPress Development
Fast, secure builds you can actually edit yourself.
SEO & AI Search
Rank on Google — and get named in the AI answer above it.
Social Media
A month of posts planned, written in your voice, approved by you.
Social Media Ads
Paid campaigns built, launched and managed month to month.
Advertising
Every way we know to put your business in front of somebody.
Listings Management
Your name, address and hours correct everywhere people look.
Review Management
More reviews, monitored and answered in your voice.
Landing Pages
One page, one offer, nowhere else to click.
Email Newsletters
The one audience you actually own, written and sent for you.
SMS Campaigns
The message people read in the next five minutes — done legally.
Logo & Branding
Drawn by a human designer, delivered in every format you need.
Custom Programming
Apps, integrations and AI features coded to your exact need.
What Delaware City businesses usually ask us
We bid for refinery work. What does our website have to prove?
Safety record, certifications, insurance limits, response times and the name of whoever answers the phone. A contractor page that reads like a brochure loses to one that reads like a pre-qualification document.
Our visitor trade is warm-weather only. What do we do all winter?
Winter is when you build the rankings you spend in June. Publishing, gathering reviews and correcting listings all take weeks to register, so doing them in the quiet stretch is precisely the point.
With fewer than 2,000 residents, is a real website worth the money?
Population is not the market here. Between the plant workforce, the ferry passengers and the households moving into the old fort, the people who might buy from you far outnumber the people on the census roll.
Homes keep going up at Fort DuPont. How do we reach those buyers?
Be findable for the practical things a new arrival looks up in the first month — trash day, the nearest urgent care, who repairs a boiler. Being the answer early tends to hold for years afterwards.
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We also work with businesses in New Castle, Bear, Odessa, Middletown and across New Castle County at the eastern end of the C&D Canal. Not in the neighborhood? We build and support websites for clients all over the country — the process works just as well over a phone call.
Tell us about your business. We will tell you what it costs.
Name and email are all it takes to start. A real Goober reads it, works out what fits, and replies with a number during business hours — Mon–Fri, 9–5.
5.0 on Google · 57 reviewsLewes, DE since 2012
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